PICKS OF THE DAY
Film: Bullitt, ITV4, 10pm
Steve McQueen. Those two words conjure up so many different images of a very cool customer. So you will understand why we have picked out this movie as one to watch. It’s the very picture that helped to turn McQueen into a screen icon. Here he plays a tough police detective who is assigned to protect a mob witness for 48 hours, only for hitmen to find their hiding place and try to silence the informant. The rebellious cop realises something does not add up and goes in search of both the killers and whoever told them where to locate their target – but an ambitious politician wants him off the case. Also starring Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn and Robert Duvall.
Documentary: Ross Kemp Living With, ITV, 7.30pm
Dementia is still the topic of conversation this week as we rejoin actor and documentary-maker Ross Kemp (left). After last week’s opener, Kemp continues his examination into the impact of the illness, meeting a family whose five-year-old girl has a form of the disease and a woman who needs to sell her mother’s house in order to pay for her £70,000 annual care home fees. He also talks once more to Scott Mitchell, husband of his former colleague Barbara Windsor.
Film: Unbroken, Film4, 9pm
Laura Hillenbrand’s non-fiction book upon which this film is based is a quite marvellous read for those with an interest in literature. When it made the jump to the big screen it was directed by Angelina Jolie and starred Jack O’Connell (above). Unbroken is a Second World War drama about an Olympic athlete who is shot down and captured by Japanese forces before enduring brutal treatment in a PoW camp.
Drama: Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, BBC4, 8pm
Allow yourself to slip back in time and return to the simpler times of 2008 while enjoying this superb adaptation of the Thomas Hardy classic. Peasant girl Tess Durbeyfield is encouraged by her father to seek advancement with their supposed relatives, the wealthy D’Urbervilles, and meets the charming Alec, man of the house since his father’s death. Eddie Redmayne and Gemma Arterton (both above) star.
Quiz: Britain’s Brightest Celebrity Family, ITV, 8pm
The final heat sees interior designer Laurence LlewelynBowen (right) and Dr Ranj Singh leading their families in the hope of making it through to the semi-finals. The Chase star Anne Hegerty presents and both Laurence and Ranj will know that winning tonight will move them a step closer to being the eventual winners with a £25,000 prize for their chosen charity and the coveted title of Britain’s Brightest Celebrity Family.